Probably so, Jeremy. Maybe because I've lived through the conversion of the Western US from a land of individually owned ranches and farms that supported prosperous small towns, to a land with huge corporate farms and dying small towns, dominated by the freeways. I know it had to happen. The result is a huge increase in productivity so that the labor of fewer people can provide life's essentials for more people. But I also remember what it was like to "creak back and forth in a porch swing on a summer evening" when towns were small and the people who provided those essentials were big. That quote comes from the little book I never published but that you can find here: http://www.russ-lewis.com/Voices/intro.html.